A creature-spotter’s guide to your local neighbourhood
2 hour bespoke performative walk, framed drawn certificate.
Relationships: to walk
Working it out along the way…
A reflective essay by independent curator John Barret-Lennard describing walking practices from the 1990s and 2000s in comparison with the 2013 fast|slow|complex exhibition. There is no easy entry into this exhibition or to the art work of Perdita Phillips. One must set out at one’s own pace, picking a way over the obstacles encountered, negotiating …
Walk ’til you run out of water
This image essay brings together notions of dehydration and lostness in outback walking (based on personal experience) with its ecological counterpoint of the rapid change occurring in our world today. Analogical comparisons are drawn between the point where walking loses its rhythm (because of exhaustion) with ecosystems that, too, appear to have lost their way.
pale tulips
Digital inkjet print on paper. Outside the Tate Britain, the last of the season’s tulips
drift ascent
Digital print on archival paper. Two of a number of prints developed as part of The Laramide Project in a Walking and Art themed residency
A walk for Busselton
Documentation of walking place – Busselton Entrance Statement Investigation project
A walk for Busselton (flame)
Documentation of walking place – Busselton Entrance Statement Investigation project (red)
A walk for Busselton (the whale)
Documentation of walking place – Busselton Entrance Statement Investigation project (the whale)
Macropus eugenii (tammar wallaby)
Installation. In an exhibition whose theme was mapping the radio tracking data of a two tammar wallabies on Garden Island off the coast of Perth are reproduced as a floor map. The blue (female) and aqua (male) marks are technologically mediated signatures at 1:100 scale
vade mecum
10 public walking events were the outcome of a 10 week studio residency at PICA. They varied from a night bat walk at Kings Park to a Victorian melodrama by young actors in the grounds of Queens Garden.